Thursday, October 23, 2008

Wikilinks

So I was checking my email and I clicked on a conversation where I was talking about the EMU - the Erb Memorial Union here at UO. Because I have Gmail, little ads appear on the sidebar of my email based on words on the page. One of them brilliantly suggested that I try emu oil.

Well, I had to know what emu oil was. The actual web page was just flashy marketing so I went to Wikipedia to find out more. I started clicking links and read about the family of flightless birds to which emus belong, which then led me to the page about kiwis, and that naturally had a disambiguation link at the top to kiwifruit.

It turns out that while kiwi birds are native to New Zealand, kiwifruit are not! They are originally from China and used to be called Chinese Gooseberries.

Isn't clicking link to link fun?

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